The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-10-06
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A new memorial of Chaucer Is TO De
erected in Poets corner.
The management of eight London
theaters is in the hands Of women. q -
The electric III shzLis. now being 1ySa
in the otchaizheriesnWith gfeaA1
cess.
Nine cables are used to tell the daily
story of Europe to America and Amer
lea to Europe.
A TASI at Throek ttons 1oughs
an editor two wildcats to be crediteu !
on his subscription.
A new republic, called the Republic
of Counani, between Brazil and frenc chs1
Guiana. has beeasdselared. a...3D ga
The house fn which Isaiah Colby
and his wife were murdered at Cherry
RuP. EfEpssisp 1SA sgtsf piese Yt';.1s Hs.,ss
lltn q = it4tathe elaaI is; EnS aaS
Haven.
For sometime il itWlas4hbdshaa' ghdst
had taken up it's abode in Frey's mine,
%ia ns AIsgaIjl!1A e. / IL aGsssis ~
1t was discovered that bull calf with
a long chain on its neck had wandered
in there to get away from the t1res ana
was unable to find its way out
Atayelsrs m looking through an
ond,,2sal lInAk stall the other day at
Toxic. Japan, came across japanese
versions of "A Dead Secret" Miss
Christabel," Lies Miserables, lie
Maitre de Forge" Serge Panine,"
..Monte Cristo," and brave but un-
fortunate metrical translation OF some
of Tennyson's and Browning's poems
Young man at Champaign, ILL.,,
rot up while asleep, went out through
2 window. breaking the wire screen.
and onto the roof of a porch, from
which he fell to the ground, distance
of twelve feet, alighting upon his
hands and knees. Strange to relate.
fhe fall did not awaken him, and MS
sIumber was unbroken for an hour
afterward.
Jacob Moors, of Ionia, Mich, boasts
he can show an apple that IS Az years
old, and that the orchard IN which II
GREW has been entirely obliterated.
It grew down in Lancaster county
penn and was probably one OF those
gnarly little things that are haruel
than Pharaoh's heart and were Otter
used as bullets by the early settlers II
times when lead was scarce.
The latest scheme to swindle farm
ers is being perpetrated under Tn
Cuise of a so-called society to preyen
the killing of birds. A man invade
the rural home. talks glibiy about Tn
good being done for the farmer Dy Tn
Birds. and ends by asking him to sig
a pledge not to kill bird In lively
months. The pledges. with litti
manipulation. turn up IN the way {
q promissory note and make trouble
A Pittsfield, ILL.,, man has man,
factured an immense barrel churn o
wheels With this he will go thrapg
the country gathering the cream, an
when he has secured the proper quaint
tv return home. He will hitch on tt
churning gear, and as he drives alon
the churning will go on as the wago
goes along, and when he arriv'
there will be nothing to do but Ia L
out the butter and draw OF the bu
termilk.
The Toledo, Anu Arbor & Cadiils
railroad company offered an 1rishma
$500 for his three-years' lease and
fered to move his cabin to any pia.
he might designate, having bought Il
land on which it stood. Pat accepts
the offer and took the money, b.
when the men came on to move Il
cabin and asked the Hibernian where
move it, he said .'to Oireland." Th
thought it was q joke, but Pat hol
the fort and has the $500.
A quaint old locomotive has ju
been assigned to duty by the Illint
Central railroad company on the
Roy & West Lebanon line. 1t has O
pair of wheels and two truck wheel
making only four wheels all told u
der the curious little machine.
weighs, with the tender and all equi
ments, less than ten tons. Twenf
two years ago it was stored away
Dubuque as useless, but the prese
rush of business has created necs
sity for again pressing it into the ST
vice. Some of the old-timers in ra
roading may remember it as the ''Vi
en-"
On s. n Walkers truck farm, ne
Brunswick, was an Indian moul
some four or five feet high and sever
feet in circumference, which the ow
er concluded to level away. so that
could plant and cultivate the groun
The center he found to contain abo
one hundred bushels of oyster shel
and on one side was found the skelet
of some very large person. The SKI
was unusually large andvery thick, a
the thigh bones very long, showing {
original to have been a man of pow,
full frame, evidently an Indian. Sol
pottery was also found.
While freight train on the Flori
Railway & Navigation company "
passing through u swamp near Gail
vile bear from the adjoining WOO
decided to make an exploring expe'
tion. One of the cars was yentilat
and contained some fish. The be
jumped into tine car, the door hayi
been left open, and was discover
Just as he was finishing the repa
The doors were Immediately clos
and the trainmen were congratulate
themselves on the capture, when bru
bent the rods of the skeleton door,
capped from his temporary prison, al
was soon lost to sight in the wooe
Harrison Clarke, of Muskogee COZ
ty Georgia, is LOG years old. but
brother is 116 and unable to be abo,
Harrison saw Gen. Washington, W
came to the then State capital SO
after the war for Independence.
was drummer-boy during the Flori
Indian war. He can pick $50 ponr
of Gotten day on an average, old
he is, and is champion wrestler.
favorlte trick being the ''hying saili
Although an anti-prohibitionist
principle, he never took dril
neither did he ever take a chew OF
bacco or a bath. He has had seJ
wives and thirty-three children
cluding six lots of twins.
An English gentleman was P
scented with a cask of Mahnsey sw
wine, which he ordered to be placed
an inner room in his wine cellar.
was absent from home for a long til
and on his return directed his but
to open the wine for his guests.
astonishment may well be imagiI
when he was informed that the
trance to the room was closed by